Dirt and Bugsy: Beetle Mania
Meet Dirt and Bugsy – best buds who catch all kinds of bugs – in this fun early reader!
Dirt and Bugsy are neighbors, best friends, and bug catchers. Bugs that crawl. Bugs that fly. Bugs that slide. Bugs that hide. When they gather a bunch of beetles, the boys make a plan to sort them into categories. But how will they decide how to sort all those beetles?
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Author: Megan Litwin
Illustrator: Shauna Lynn Panczyszyn
Art Director: Jay Emmanuel
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Beetles are fascinating! They come in all different colors, sizes, and shapes. What's not to love? Right up there with real live beetles are books about beetles. Megan Litwin hits all the right notes in this follow-up to the first book, Bug Catcher, in her DIRT and BUGSY series. As a long-time, primary-grades teacher, I know the importance of "just right" books for emerging and progressing readers: an engaging plot, eye-catching pictures that support the text (expertly illustrated by Shauna Lynn Panczyszyn) along with repetition, decodable words, and familiar sight words. Add in a bit of "beetle math" - sorting bugs into child-friendly categories - and you know you've struck early reader gold!
Dianne White, author
DIRT AND BUGSY: BEETLE MANIA is the adorable second book in the DIRT AND BUGSY early reader series by Megan Litwin. With colorful illustrations by Shauna Lynn Panczyszyn and clever rhyme and repetition, Beetle Mania engages hatching readers. It also encourages early mathematicians and scientists to experiment in fun ways. These books are perfect summer reads that will lead to outside play!
Amanda Smith